District Coach on the Go
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing Tags: camera
The problem with the Mac’s camera is that it only faces the person in front of the computer. This is unlike iPad/iPhone, which has lenses facing both ways. So I thought why not 3D print a widget with two mirrors attached, that sits atop the computer? The part would work like a periscope. This way, teachers could record students without students being distracted by seeing themselves on the computer monitor.
Here is a sketchup version of the design 
15 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in behavior management Tags: rewards, stickers
I bought 720 reward stickers for $14.99, which was a lot of money for me at the time. 
I probably used 35 of them in total. Now, 11 years later, the glue is all dried up and there is a bad smell.
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in Curriculum, desktop publishing Tags: Teacher-Created Materials
I recently brought up a box from the storage room and found old curriculum books, including a number of “Teacher-Created Materials, Inc” technology books. This one is entitled “Writing and Desktop Publishing on the Computer” (TCM#924). It was written by Terry Rosengart (who I actually knew from the DOE).
I think that every computer lab teacher had dozens of different titles, all of which tended to be quite wordy. 
I probably never even used mine in a classroom.
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